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JAMES AND POTOMAC ARCHEOLOGY 



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 NOLOGY 



surface and partly witliin tlie grave, was a doubled skeleton, on left 

 side, with head toward the south. Behind the head was a pot lying on 

 its side, broken in pieces by the pressure of the earth, and containing 

 a tortoise shell and fragments of animal bones. Almost touching the 

 pot, on the opposite side, was another skull lying vertex upward on the 



scapuliB and backbone; 

 the arms were in their 

 proi)er ])laces, but the 

 bones of the legs and 

 lower part of the body 

 wore not distinguish- 

 able among those which 

 rested upon them. This 

 a[)i)arently was a skel- 

 eton burial, with some 

 effort to place the l)ones 

 as they belonged. Un- 

 der and in contact with 

 one scapula was a pa- 

 tella belonging to a 

 much larger person. 



The bones in the upper 

 portion of the funnel- 

 shape ])it were continu- 

 ous with a stratum a foot 

 thick, 25 feet long, and 

 with an average width 

 of 10 feet. This termi- 

 nated at the extreme 

 northern edge with a 

 similar but slightly 

 smaller pit. 



Of necessity the face 

 or bank of the trench 

 was in a very irregular 

 line, each deposit, except 

 the 25-foot bone bed, 

 liaving been thoroughly 

 worked out as discover- 

 ed. The projecting i)or- 

 tions were next removed 

 with the same general 

 results as already de- 

 scribed, though there 

 was nothing of striking interest found in them. When the line was 

 rectified the face was 12 feet north of the center point. Here 3 small 

 graves about 10 or 12 inches deep were found almost in a line, each 

 containing skeletons with colnmellas and Manjinella shells. 



Fin. 0.— Caryecl bone from Linvillc, Virffiiiia. 



